Hearing that Su Qingluan was coming, Liu Sheng and Mrs. Xi in the hall came out to greet her.
Because Mrs. Xi was supporting Liu Sheng, her steps were slightly slower than her usual neat steps. Next to her, Liu Sheng kept urging her: "Don't worry about me, go and greet Mrs. Su first."
During this gap, Liu Yunniang had already entered with a food box in one hand and an arm around Su Qingluan's shoulder. Hearing what his father said, he raised his voice and said, "It's not the first time Qingluan has come here. We are all so familiar with each other, why are you still doing these polite things?"
Su Qingluan also nodded hurriedly: "Mother Yun is right! Uncle Liu, your legs are still not strong enough. You have been standing at a stall for a whole day. Don't get tired. Go back and sit down to rest!"
"Did you hear that?" Mrs. Xi carefully supported her boss and said angrily, "I told you that Miss Su won't care about this, yet you still insist on showing off!"
"Etiquette cannot be discarded!" Liu Sheng was very stubborn, "Ms. Su is the shopkeeper of our family after all. We are employed by others, so we should be polite to the master!"
Su Qingluan was stunned: In fact, strictly speaking, the Su family can really be regarded as the "employer" of the Liu family, so Liu Sheng cannot be said to be wrong in thinking so.
However, in her private mind, she really didn't want to put on any airs of being "the master's family".
After finally persuading Liu Sheng to treat herself as an ordinary junior, Liu Yunniang took Su Qingluan back to her room.
"It's finally clean," Liu Yuniang sighed, "My father is a very loyal person, but sometimes he doesn't know how to adapt." She said, nodding her head.
Su Qingluan looked at the food box placed in the center of the table: "There are quite a lot of snacks here. I made them for three people." Although it was said to be for Liu Yunniang, it couldn't be made for just one person. , let the parents of the Liu family watch?
When Liu Yunniang heard this, she knew that Su Qingluan wanted to ask a question like, "Is it really okay for the two of us to eat in your room without sharing it?"
She laughed and said, "I'll wait for you to leave later and then give it to my parents to eat. Otherwise, with my father's temperament, I'm afraid he'll have to bow down to you three times for even one bite. Can you bear it?"
Of course, Liu Yunniang's words were a bit exaggerated. However, Su Qingluan recalled the stern appearance of Liu Sheng in front of her just now, and a chill ran down her back: Forget it, any good appetite was lost in that stern atmosphere.
Thinking of this, Su Qingluan smiled: "Don't let Uncle Liu hear what you said, or how sad he would be?"
However, Liu Yunniang started to unpack the food box without paying much attention, curling her lips and said: "Tch, he won't be sad, he will beat me up."
"Can you beat me?" Su Qingluan was surprised: As far as she knew, although Liu Yunniang's boxing and kicking skills were not as good as each other, her speed on the feet was absolutely outstanding.
Liu Yunniang smiled and blinked: "It was possible before - the old man's skills are so fast. But now he can't run away from me, he can only stare - wow!"
There was an astonishing exclamation later, after Liu Yunniang saw the lotus cake inside as the food box was opened.
The snow-white petals are layered in layers, and the stamens in the middle reveal a bright yellow color. The outermost layer is tender green, as if it is the leaves holding a flower. Different from the bright red flowers, the white lotus cake looks white and elegant, which is equally pleasing to the eye.
"This, this is for me?"
Su Qingluan nodded: "This snack is called Lotus Crisp. Originally, the lotus was made into light red, but I made some improvements in the taste and thought it would match better with white."
As she said that, she took out the handkerchief she carried with her and wiped her hands, then took out a lotus cake from the food box: "Here, try it. I know you like sweets, but this one is not particularly sweet. I don't know if you like it." like."
In fact, according to Su Qingluan's own taste, the sweetness of adding sugar to the outer meringue is considered "too sweet". However, she does not know the degree of sweetness of Liu Yunniang, so she does not know the extent of it. Is the "sweetness" enough for her?
Liu Yunniang stared at the lotus cakes that seemed to be slowly blooming buds in layers. She suddenly seemed to wake up from some illusion. She suddenly raised her head to Su Qingluan and said, "Wait for me." Before she finished speaking, she said He ran out like a gust of wind.
After a while, she came back again, with a bright yellow handkerchief in her hand, embroidered with the pattern of winter jasmine flowers - it was obviously new, and the creases were still on it.
I saw Liu Yunniang carefully spreading the handkerchief on the palm of her hand, holding it almost reverently with both hands, and said to Su Qingluan eagerly: "Put the snacks on the handkerchief!"
Su Qingluan burst out laughing: "Can't you just eat it with your hands?"
Even though she said this, she still followed the good advice and put the lotus cake in Liu Yunniang's palm: "Here, why are you so careful?"
"I'm afraid of accidentally crushing it." The moment the snack was placed in her palm, Liu Yunniang always felt like she had been tapped on some acupoint, and she didn't even dare to move.
"If it's broken, it's broken," Su Qingluan said nonchalantly, "There's another box there." As he said that, he also took apart the second layer of the food box. There were two layers in total, which was enough for the Liu family of three to eat at will. .
"That's different," Liu Yunniang held the lotus cake in front of her, "This is the first time I've seen such a beautiful snack that looks like a flower!"
"I just don't know if the taste suits your taste."
Liu Yunniang shook her head desperately: "But judging from the appearance, no matter how unpalatable it is, it is delicious to me - not to mention, Qingluan, how can the food you make taste unpalatable?"
Liu Yunniang's tone was very determined.
Su Qingluan burst out laughing at Liu Yunniang's words, not because the other party said her cooking skills were good, but because Su Qingluan now felt that in a sense, Liu Yunniang could be considered a "face control" ——After all, he is a person who can tolerate the taste of snacks for the sake of their appearance.
...Although she is confident, the taste of the snacks she produces cannot be described as "endurable".
"Try it?" Su Qingluan suggested. After all, the snacks she worked so hard to make were not just for people to offer.
Liu Yunniang looked at several angles and was a little confused: "I... I'm a little reluctant to eat it!" At the end of the sentence, she actually felt a little aggrieved: she just couldn't bear to destroy such a beautiful snack by herself!
Su Qingluan didn't have so much "baggage of perfectionism". He picked up a piece of lotus cake at random, as if on purpose, and opened his mouth. Liu Yunniang wanted to stop her, but she was holding a piece in her hand and couldn't take it out. She just watched helplessly. He watched as the piece of lotus cake in Su Qingluan's hand suddenly lost half of it, and the remaining half broke into pieces and fell into Su Qingluan's hand because it was too crispy.
"Hey, why did you just eat like this?" Liu Yunniang was speechless.
